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THE REPUBLIC 



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NORTH AMERICA 



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W.3, Cr MODTIBOLT. 




Life, Freedom and Property are ours by natural inheritance from Father Adam, and 
through him from The Fathes op All. The first is the measure of the second, the second 
of the third, the third of the first; and these three as one constitute the substance of our 
rights and the essence of ourselves. "We are responsible and accountable for our condition 
and possessions. 






J DETEOIT: 

JOHN SLATEB'S BOOK AND JOB FEINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 

1863. 






Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, in the Clerk's Office in the 
District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Michigan. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



To the active, wise and good everywhere this little 
volume is respectfully dedicated. 

It is submitted for their consideration and criticism, 
and published to the world at large, with the earnest hope 
and expectation that the welfare of all may be promoted 
in the elucidation of truth and the re-establishment of 
justice, though the author suffer in the defects of his work. 

This plan is made to embrace all North America, but 
will apply to a fractional territory with proportionate 
benefits. 

Its fundamental basis consists in this : that private 
affairs should be limited to personal estates, and such 
estates to certain bounds ; family affairs to family estates ; 
social affairs to social estates ; department affairs to de- 
partment estates ; national affairs to national estates ; and 
all laws, rules and Regulations enacted by the highest 
of these powers that can consistently make them of general 
application throughout its jurisdiction. 

Its action is this : that legislation and business should 
be considered together ; that both also should be executed 
by the same body; that all monopolies, exchanges and 
profits of capital should be vested in the public, for the 
benefit of all the active people ; and that every man should 
be thenceforth "rewarded according to his works." 

To insure mathematical accuracy this plan is developed 
as if the continent were regular, without mountain, swamp 



or sea ; but must of course be modified by essential defects 
and insurmountable obstructions. 

It is made as if Mexico, Canada and Cuba, with the 
other States and islands of North America, were ready to 
assent. This question they will of course decide, each one 
for herself, according to their own sense of interest, duty 
and expediency. It will be ours simply, if need be, to 
assure a free expression on such choicf. 

It recognizes the existence of Southern states, but not 
of a confederacy; and with a full and clear conviction 
that the people of the South will determine, as did those 
of New England fifty years ago, that they do not prefer 
continued war, desolation and friendly havoc in jealous 
little states to the consolidated power and glory of a great 
and good republic, embracing the area of one vast con- 
tinent and five hundred million free men, holding distinct 
relations, and bound together by every tie that can endear 
humanity and render life a blessing — with the enticing, 
exciting and delightful enjoyment of a beautiful, honorable 
and praiseworthy ambition, extending from the cradle to 
the grave, and from time to eternity. 

Thousands of years have elapsed since the establishment 
of our race in the person of Father Adam. Wars, strifes 
and successions have been our history. We have erected 
kingdoms, empires and republics, and again destroyed them 
by our own hands. Let this be done no more. There is 
no honor in such practices. Let us henceforth seek the 
path of power and glory, which is the truth of God ; and 
the rule of happiness, his law. 

The way of sin is broad and varied, leading down to 
death; that of truth, direct and narrow, moving into life. 
To every point in the heavens or upon the earth there is 
one straight line, and only one, with countless millions 
pointing otherwise. How easy then to err. How uncertain 



and often circuitous is the stranger's pathway in the track- 
less desert, prairie or sea, unless he have some distinct 
object guide. 

"The smallest craft that plies the ocean wave," with 
the help of a mariner's compass, is to be trusted rather 
than the mightiest ship of war, depending on her own 
strength for surety, and the wisdom of her chiefs for 
guidance. Certainly, there is the sun by day, and the 
moon and stars by night. These may do in the open sea, 
when the sky is fair, where the way is free ; but in the 
blackness of darkness, on the banks of New Foundland, a 
feeble mariner in the little craft, with his needle bearing 
true on the polar star, is possessed of more useful knowl- 
edge, wisdom and power than ten thousand of those ships 
and as many million souls — the choicest mould, material 
and finish that ever graced the earth, or moved upon the 
deep. The star of truth instructs the compass, the com- 
pass the mariner, the mariner his little craft, and the 
mighty superb fleet, freighted with precious lives and all 
their goods and chattels, following in the wake of her true 
course, makes the great harbor in safety. I 

What if nine thousand of those ships had chosen to 
forsake the light of truth for that of dark philosophy, to 
guide themselves henceforth by the local lamp of reason, 
seated in the midst of obscurity ? 

They might indeed escape the breakers and override the 
storm ; but the morning mist and midday sunbeam would 
find the scattered happy crews describing circles on the 
broad expanse, until the shades of night had settled down 
upon them — some on the banks of the same New Found- 
land, some in the midst and some in the depths of the sea. 
And thus from day to day, and from night to night, with 
stores and strength exhausting, and vessels wearing, break- 
ing, sinking, till the last ship and the last soul go down 



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to the oblivion of a dreadful death, crying "there is no 
God, no truth, no hope/ no happiness for man — all is 
darkness and uncertainty." 

Who that is wise and good would follow such senseless 
and wicked example, whilst the way of life and truth is so 
plain that "a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err 
therein." 

Christ is that bright an.! particular star ; his word the 
compass ; his Spirit the magnetism ; his ministry the ma- 
riner, or as many as may be ; his church the little craft, 
with all that follow or move in the same direction; the 
earth the ships and freight; the world the precious souls; 
sin the rocks and shoals ; life the ocean of liberty ; and 
the harbor of rest the heaven of bliss and immortality, the 
millennial day and home of glory, "the new Jerusalem 
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband" — Jesus, the anointed Eedeemer, 
Father and King of all men who shall enjoy existence 
hereafter. 

The conclusion then is inevitable, that Christ, our 
Safior and our Chief, is the direct and only true source 
of power and authority among men ; and that the organ- 
ization of his kingdom is the ordained model of human 
government, to be adopted by us in so far as our imperfect 
character and condition will permit and warrant the erection 
of a faultless edifice. 

This w T ork is necessarily defective in development and 
detail, and subject to criticism and correction ; for which 
reasons the author would respectfully and earnestly solicit 
the action in this behalf of those to whom it is inscribed, 
that the principles of truth, justice and happiness embodied 
in the Gospel of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, may 
be established among men, and that speedily. 

University of Michigan, MODTIBOLT. 

October 26 ; 1863. 



INVOCATION, 



Holy, Supreme, Infinite and Eternal Father, suffer 
to approach Thee one of thine own little children, born to 
Thee in Christ by thy Holy Spirit. 

1 am weak and wicked, therefore do I fear and tremble ; 
for were I just and perfect, then would my step be firm, 
mine eye steadfast, my heart constant, and my whole soul 
open before Thee. 

But my trust is in thy Word, and mine assurance in 
the witness of thy Spirit. Thou hast given me life ; Thou 
hast shown me thy way ; Thou hast promised truth in the 
journey. Thou hast provided a constant lamp to guide my 
feet, a certain light to illumine my pathway. Thou hast 
declared thyself my Father, and that I should be thy 
child. Thou gavest thy Word to instruct, thy Church to 
cherish, and thy Spirit to recreate me; that we may be 
one with Christ in Thee, and Thou in Him and us, bring- 
ing system out of confusion, to the consummation of the 
restitution of all things. 

Therefore do I come before Thee as a little child to its 
father, noble, just and kind ; who knows his own, and who 
will in no wise deceive them. I come trusting in thy 
promise and upheld by thy free Spirit. 

I know in whom I have believed ; for Thou art God, 
and beside Thee there is none other. Thou art Jehovah, 
the self-existent source of all; the great first cause, and 



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supreme ruler of the universe; the former of physical 
creation and father of spiritual existence; the fountain 
and supply of life and light and truth, of knowledge and 
justice and power, of wisdom and love and felicity — dwell- 
ing incomprehensible in thine attributes, and known only 
to thyself. 

Thy glory, thy majesty and thy power dazzle the gaze 
and confound the very imagination of a cherub. Thy 
comprehension, thy knowledge and thy wisdom cannot 
be measured by eternal immensity. Thy truth, thy in- 
tegrity and thy justice are faultless, inviolable and ever- 
lasting. Thy love, thy mercy and complacency surpass 
the finest conception of the most exalted creature. 

Perfect in all thine appointments, Thou sittest on thy 
throne in the midst of the heavens, and dost behold and 
control all things, from the center of the central sun even 
to the outer confines of space. The most minute object, 
the most simple thought, the most trivial action, does not 
escape thy notice. Thou carest for the well-being of every 
creature; but thy justice in no case suffers with impunity 
the least deviation from thy law of truth. 

Well may I trust in Thee, Father! Why shall I 
fear while Thou art with me ! Nay, my heart is fixed, and 
my energies shall forever press towards Thee : 

" Nearer, my God, to Thee — nearer to Thee, 
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me; 
Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee — nearer to Thee." 

Draw and keep me near Thee, Grod ; conform me to 
thi&e image, and bind me fast in thy love. Teach me 
knowledge and grant me wisdom, that I may declare thy 
law and truth ; that all the earth, with all that therein is, 
may become holy and perfect even as Thou. 






The Lord loveth righteousness and judgment. The 
Lord loveth the simple heart of a pure man, and the 
frieadship of him that is holy. 

Dwell forever, dwell my soul, amid the inimitable 
beauties of heaven ; bathing in the fullness of the glory 
of God, and drinking from the cup of his felicity. 



THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Fundamental Basis of Human Government. 

Society, daughter of Eve and mother of humanity, moulds 
the common mind and shapes it to her own. 

Child she is of a frail parent and submissive sire, whose 
offspring, as themselves, prefer the tree of death to that of life, 
and groping darkly and confused in the bright sunlight of 
heaven, through the midst of a garden of beauty and plenty, 
by mansions of comfort and bliss, tread warily toward the final 
goal, grasping right or left, to seize the stay of life from sub- 
stance, soil or sea, or feebler brother man ; or if they wake at 
night and see no sun, no light, no friendly face, nor home, nor 
hope, but a cold, pale moon and stars obscure veiled, in the 
hazy sky — they close their eyes again, and move in frenzy, 
callous or despair toward the brink of the river of death ; where- 
into unwillingly they are plunged, unless some outstretched arm 
of power seize and rescue them, open their eyes, unstop their 
ears, loose their tongues, strengthen their weary limbs, and as 
children teach them of the way and the truth, and lead them to 
the goal of immortality by the same sunlight that in their days 
of darkness and disease had kindly shone upon them every- 
where, to furnish life and light and sustenance. Her fate is 
weakness, wickedness and woe, unless God pity and restore her. 

But society is no more one. The whole earth is no longer 
"of one language and of one speech." It cannot now be said as 
of old: "Behold the people is one, and they have all one Ian- 



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guage." For the Lord came down from heaven and beheld 
the wickedness of man. He confounded their language that 
they might not understand one another's speech, and scattered 
them abroad upon the face of all the earth, that they might 
not work iniquity together. He made a thousand strange 
tongues and dialects, and ten thousand jealous castes and 
classes, who being without unity, embraced every pretext of 
discord, to sow the seeds of strife and war throughout the 
world ; so that the wicked everywhere might quarrel day and 
night, by members, by families, by tribes, by societies, by 
states, by powers, kingdoms, empires and republics. 

Yet, with every heart inclined to evil, and that continually, 
He nevertheless reserved to Himself a chosen family whom He 
restrained by power and punishment through more than sixty 
generations, to the birth of the Prince of Peace, the Son of 
God, through whom all nations, tribes and languages should 
be again united in one brotherhood, born into the family of the 
second Adam, by the grace of God and the inspiration of His 
Holy Spirit, through the ministry of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 

" Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to 
dwell together in unity." "They see their children's children, 
their fathers' father, and peace upon Israel." God reigns again 
supreme and unopposed on earth. Beauty, gladness and per- 
fection dwell joyous and secure in all things. Thorns and 
thistles grow no more. Man smiles upon his brother man, 
and love gives place to love. Nature yields her strength, and 
strength receives again. The soul expands in truth and com- 
prehends the universe ; or concentrating all her powers, doth 
view the smallest particle. 

It is the millennial day and home of glory, the kingdom of 
our Lord and Savior, and the foundation of this argument. 



Christianity, its Operation and Results. 

That "there is no new thing under the sun," is declared in 
the same authority by which the fact and truth of Christianity 



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are made known and established. It is therefore (and for other 
reasons) as old as "the day wherein God created the heaven 
and the earth, the sea and all that in them is." And to under- 
stand its operation and results, we must inquire within our- 
selves, to learn who and what we are, whence we came, whither 
we go, and in what manner we are saved from sin and restored 
to holiness in God. 

How then were our souls that we now have originally 
acquired ? Whence came they, and at what age did we receive 
them ? If those questions are too difficult, then how were our 
bodies originally acquired ? Whence came they, and at what 
age did we receive them ? 

Is the soul, as the body, germinated, nourished, developed, 
brought forth into life, and thence to maturity ; or is it rather 
an indefinite, unsubstantial, mysterious reality which comes at 
some known period, is developed by some hidden process, and 
exists we know not where ? If the former, then who is the 
mother of the soul, and who its father ? Are our parents whom 
we love so dearly, are they unworthy such an honor? Or is 
the process unworthy ? Nay, indeed, it is altogether honorable ; 
but we have made ourselves unworthy, and the proud soul 
would fain deny its origin, rather than confess its degradation. 

However, it does not come at once, but rather as the body. 
Nevertheless, the body came first, for "that was not first which 
is. spiritual, but that which is natural; afterwards that which is 
spiritual." 

Having made the body of Adam "of the dust of the 
ground," the Lord "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 
and man became a living soul," from whose person Eve was 
fowned. They were then commanded to increase and multiply, 
and replenish, and subdue and have dominion over all the earth. 

It is therefore evident that though the body is of earth and 
the soul of heaven, nevertheless both are of God, through our 
first parents. But it is only the germ and identity which con- 
tinue in either ; the substance undergoes constant change. It 
is by healthful action and good nourishment that the body 
thrives. Who will say that it is not by healthful action and 



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proper nourishment that the soul also grows in strength and 
power ! Who will likewise assert that the soul is not affected 
by the condition of the body, nor the body by that of the soul ! 

But the latter is the living part of man, and is far more 
complicated, requiring a greater variety of food. It must have 
spiritual to nurture the spirit, intellectual to nurture the intel- 
lect, society for the social, friends for friendship, and others 
very numerous. 

That man only can be called educated whose mind and 
body, and faculties of, mind and body, are thus developed, 
directed and balanced, beginning with the first. 

Herein also consists the perfection of manhood : the nobler 
faculty leading the character, and the others, every one in its 
own order, being correspondingly developed and implicitly 
obedient. 

"But .which is the nobler faculty ?" That evidently is most 
noble which legitimately performed the highest office. "What 
is the highest office ?" That which controls all others. " What 
faculty then in man should assume control?" None should 
assume, for in such case the stronger would rule ; but that which 
has been instituted as governor should exercise its authority. 

Now, the desire for wealth, or for honor, or for fame, or for 
praise, or for revenge, or for social pleasures, or for meats and 
drinks, or for luxury, or for charity, or for friendship, or- for 
love, or for knowledge, or for the truth and law of God — all 
these represent faculties of the soul, either of which may for a 
time govern our being. But the last is that which always 
should, because we know that God is the great Creator and 
Supreme Buler of the Universe; that it is He who has made 
us, who made the laws which govern our existence and happi- 
ness, who made the earth on which we live, and the natural 
circumstances that surround us. It is, therefore, self-evident 
that the faculty which may be intuitively instructed or im- 
pressed with his will, is the true criterion for our action, in 
every case in which its pleasure shall have been made manifest : 
that is the conscience. 

Now there are circumstances wherein conscience has nothing 



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to say, from which we may understand that while this should 
exercise a general control, the other faculties, each in its order, 
have certain spheres peculiar to themselves, wherein, without 
passing the general boundary line, they should be free to act 
their own pleasure. Here nothing should interpose. Here is 
their circle of freedom and of authority. 

Now it will be said perhaps that conscience is not always 
right ; that it sometimes interferes with our personal or intel- 
lectual, ideal, domestic, convivial, social or political pleasures, 
and thereby mars all the happiness of life. But more often, 
you will observe, it yields to their encroachments on ita own 
domain, and delivers up its sceptre to appetite, or desire, or 
mammon, or passion, or selfishness, or some other intemperate 
usurper. 

There are those also who affirm that co?iscience is an in- 
sufficient guide, that reason is the true criterion. This opinion 
may be correct in a limited sense, viz : that a dethroned con- 
science is certainly imperfect, being the representative of the 
Great Ruler, and composed in part of humanity and in part 
of divinity — the latter now of course withdrawn; whereas 
reason is purely human and positive, controlling its own 
resources and dying only with them. "Wherefore all the sins 
which tend to weaken and subvert the conscience, do not 
diminish the vitality and force of reason, unless they be ma- 
terial ; and in a soul utterly devoid of divine conscience the 
reason stands opposed to God — it is the god of choicest 

wickedness. 

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Nevertheless, the possession of an inspired conscience is not 
a certain evidence of godliness, especially with such as have 
power and authority ; for the Almighty oft breathes upon the 
wicked, dispensing blessings to the good. 

How beautiful the conception of a faultless reason, guided 
by a perfect conscience obeying the will of God ! 

"But how is a wicked reason better than a lifeless con- 
science ?" Because by acting in concert with the selfish facul- 
ties, it can control our action on personal grounds, and thus 
secure material happiness. Eeason says it is better to be just, 



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to be temperate, to develope and improve the mind and body y 
to obey the laws of God — in fine, to do whatever will conduce 
to our own good. This is excellent government when compared 
with the anarchy of a feeble ruler in conflict with abnormal 
appetites. Therefore those philosophers are correct in a limited 
sense, who maintain that reason is a noble faculty, more worthy 
indeed than all the passions and desires. 

" What then of conscience ?" It is dethroned in some, in 
others buried, while a few only are controlled and directed by it. 

We are informed that at a certain time "the Lord looked 
down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there 
were any that did understand and seek God." And he found 
them "all gone aside, altogether become unclean, none doing 
good, no not one;" but wending their w r ay through sin, and 
suffering down to the lake of death and disintegration. 

Afterwards Christ came. He instituted a new order of 
things, through which the whole world is to be brought back 
to God. He did not propose to deal by miracle, as that term 
is understood ; for we know that the Almighty had power to 
raise up a new race from the very stones of the earth. He 
could have made all things perfect in one hour. He could have 
made every woman as lovely as Eve, as beautiful as Helen, and 
as chaste as Mary ; every man as noble as Adam, as handsome 
as Apollo, and as pure as the son of Jacob — all holy, happy 
and immortal as the angels of heaven. He could have paved 
our roads and streets with pure gold; made our walls of 
precious stones; our dwellings of Parian marble, superbly 
furnished and adorned; our gardens, walks, orchards, fields, 
meadows, parks, forests, lakes and rivers of surpassing fullness, 
beauty and grandeur. He could have made known the use 
of steam, electricity and type. He could have opened the eyes 
of the Eoman Empire to the twentieth century. He could, in 
fine, have instituted the millennium in the year of the advent 
of Christ. 

Notwithstanding he did not propose to do it by miracle. 
He would "change the earth and heaven as a garment," but 
aot Himself, his laws, nor truth. He would restore the autiiority 



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of conscience, and through it purify the heart, curb the passions, 
restrain the desires, awaken the understanding, enlighten the 
mind, instruct the judgment, and develope the whole soul in 
renewed beauty, symmetry and power. 

"But how was this to be done? By what process were 
these results to be obtained ?" 

By the process of regeneration, by substituting new and 
perfect souls for old imperfect ones. 

"Is the old soul then to be taken out, and a new one ready 
made fitted in its stead ?" 

Not exactly so. Listen. 

God is an infinite spirit. The soul of man is a portion 
thereof, breathed into Adam in the Garden of Eden. Now 
transformation is the law of growth, development and felicity, 
and spirit is susceptible of change as well as matter; else how 
could we grow better or worse, wise or demented? But the 
germ and identity remain. So also is it with f the body. The 
dust of man is not decreased by death, nor his spirit destroyed 
by separation. The one returns to whence it came, the other 
to Him who gave it. And if we grow in weight and stature, 
'tis only earth transformed to flesh and bone. . Thus, too, if we 
increase in soul, 'tis only this, that God dwells in us more. 

"What say you then of regeneration ?" 

Plainly this: the Holy Spirit, of his own substance, im- 
plants within ours a new and perfect germ, which is nurtured 
through its own appetite in Him who gave it, both directly and 
by the instrumentality of the church, until it shall have been 
perfectly rooted and grounded, and grown into the full measure 
of the Gospel. And as in the defective body, so in the soul : 
the old substance passes away, and that formed from new 
nourishment takes its place. Finally, with due exercise, care- 
fulness, cleanliness, temperance and joyous appetite, the whole 
man becomes transformed into the perfect image and substance 
of Christ, every disciple in his own order, beginning with the 
Apostles. 

Beautiful, grand and consoling as is this view of Christianity, 

it is at the same time simple, practical and indeed self-evident ; 
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for surely habits are much the same in spirit as in matter. We 
choose what*food we will. — our choice at first is free ; but that 
which we have followed long and pleasantly gains hold upon 
us by assimilation, and when once the point is made and balance 
turned, we are not what we were, but wedded to the fate of 
our own choice. 

Now, with christians the ruling spirit of the soul is the 
same in every one, being from God, through Christ and his 
Apostles, and the ministry of the church, down to and by our 
fathers in the gospel, every member nourished by the same 
Holy Spirit. Hence we are one in Christ and Christ in us ; and 
we with him in God, and God in him and us. All this by a 
positive, substantial connection ! 

How perfect, how beautiful, how excellent, how surpassing 
all conception! Well may we rejoice with joy unspeakable 
and full of glory. . Let the soul expand in happiness, grandeur 
and power; it will find that these do grow with its growth, 
strengthen with its strength, and rejoice with its rejoicing 
toward the eternal felicity, brightness, excellence and majesty 
of the Omnipotent. 

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name ; 
may thy kingdom come, and thy will be done on earth as it 
is in heaven — that all may walk in the beauty of holiness, and 
see Thee as Thou art, God over all, blessed forever ! 

my Savior ! rather would I be the last born child of the 
smallest family of thy kingdom, and look up through a 
succession of ten thousand fathers, extending from Thee to me, 
that through them and through Thee I might behold the Throne 
of Majesty on High, and say my Father and my God ! than to 
dwell — nay, my soul falters, my heart fails me, more I cannot 
say ! my God ! henceforth keep me by thy power, " through 
faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last time !" 

Such we are taught is the manner of reconstruction now in 
process of operation; such the re-union that is to be of all 
nations, tribes and languages. 

What if this is spiritual ! What if such doctrine refers to 
the world to come hereafter ! Is it not of men ? Are we not 



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of those to whom this declaration has been made ? Are we 
not of the people who are to constitute that new world of which 
Christ shall be king ? 

If any answer "No," let him answer "No." 

But to us this is a good doctrine, and worthy of all accep- 
tation — Christ, the Son of God and Savior of mankind, will 
be king of those who shall enjoy existence hereafter; his 
Apostles, first at his coming, shall be next him in authority, 
each sitting upon a throne and judging one of the departments 
of his kingdom ( a one of the twelve tribes of Israel.") They 
in each department who are most worthy shall be made rulers 
of divisions, ("of five or ten cities,") and thus on the end 
"every man in his own order," "rewarded (in position) accord- 
ing to his works," "all one body in Christ," and "every one 
members of one another," "but not of the same office." 

And this is wise, just and good, as the scriptures clearly 
show; for "if (say they) the whole body were an eye, where 
were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the 
smelling ? But now hath God set the members, every one of 
them, in the body as it hath pleased Him. And if they were 
all one member, where were the body? But how are they 
many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say 
unto the hand, I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to 
the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those mem- 
bers of the body which seem to be more feeble are necessary ; 
and those members of the body which we think to be less 
honorable, upon these we bestow more abundant honor. And 
our uncomely parts have more abundant comliness, for our 
comely parts have no need ; but God hath tempered the body 
together, having given more abundant honor to that which 
lacked, that there should be no schism in the body, but that 
the members should have the same care one for another. And 
when one member suffers, all the members suffer with it ; or 
one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it." 

Such is a description of the building of the kingdom of 
which all we who have hope expect to be members. You will 
observe that it is patterned after the figure of a man, head, 



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limbs and body all complete. No two are exactly alike, yet 
are they almost all in parrs, with one head to direct the whole. 
Each has a separate office, more or less honorable, and performs 
the part assigned him with easy grace and dignity. Every 
member is duly cared for, as a part of the body, and the suffer- 
ings of one borne by every other ; and if one be honored, they 
all rejoice with him. 

"Now indeed," some one will say, "this is very good doc- 
, trine, christian doctrine; but why introduce it into a work 
devoted to social and political reform ? "Why commingle things 
spiritual and eternal with earthly and temporal affairs ?" The 
reason is obvious: a perfect model is the best model; that of 
Christ's kingdom, being perfect in every way, is therefore better 
than any we know beside. 

"But," he will continue, "our earth is not heaven; our 
people are not saints ; our ruler is not the Savior ; why then 
apply such doctrine to govern mankind ?" 

The answer is on the lips of every man, pressing from the 
heart, the intellect, the sense : the rules of truth and justice are 
eternal, universal and immutable ; they are therefore right } whether 
%oe think we can apply them or not. 

"But," you will ask, "what if they be right, and yet imprac- 
' ticable? Do not the unevenness and multiformity of soil, the 
diversity of climate and productions; the existence of seas, 
lakes, rivers, swamps, mountains, deserts and barren lands ; the 
variety of species human, brute and vegetable ; the shortness 
and uncertainty of life, and the established order of things : do 
not these render a perfect system of society an impossibility ?" 

Some of them do indeed make it difficult to divide the 
whole world into plantations, gardens, manufactories, cities, 
villages, lakes, parks and pleasure grounds, after the perfect 
pattern of a beautiful system ; but among the great obstructions 
are the wickedness, ignorance and unwillingness of men. We 
prefer, indeed we are accustomed to seek earthly happiness in 
the possessions we may have inherited or wedded, or those 
secured to us by trading in the commodities of life and in the 
labor of our fellows. 



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No great system has yet been developed by which every 
man should enjoy the full satisfaction of his normal wants in 
the just exercise of his natural powers, and the position in 
society and authority to which his worth and ability entitle him. 
But if mankind were agreed upon a plan of mutual action, the 
general advantage would doubtless be great; and while we 
would be unable to render all things perfect, such an association 
would promote the welfare of every member. 

A system after a perfect pattern, and which promised in- 
crease of wealth, honor, happiness, social bliss and political 
stability, and the universal assurance of life, freedom and pro- 
perty — such an one should commend itself to our adoption. 

However there are some things evidently good ; there are 
others which seem so, and yet are not. We have been furnished 
with minds whereby to judge, and are not apt to decide incor- 
rectly in that which pertains to our own freedom and happiness. 

There are those who deem it to their interest to combat all 
measures which are not found in the ancient ritual. But criti- 
cism will not destroy the truth ; so that a system which cannot 
withstand its test, is either unworthy the people, or the people 
unworthy of it. 

A rough hewn model is herewith presented, to which our 
attention is invited. If, having reviewed it well, we approve 
the plan and building, let us join forces with those of like 
opinion, to finish and prepare it for the dwelling place of man. 

General Principles of Government. 

The world seems to have arrived at a stage in which society, 
now far removed from a state of barbarism and disintegration, 
might be established on the basis of universal justice and love. 

It has been said that the people are not yet sufficiently 
intelligent to become absolute freemen and citizens ; and while 
it is true that there remains among us much of selfishness, 
ignorance, intemperance and wickedness, which are indeed great 
obstructions to the establishment of a natural form of govern- 
ment, notwithstanding it is evident that, if not now present, the 



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day is near at hand when those difficulties will no longer exist 
in force, and every man will demand his rights under the sun, 
and show himself worthy and competent to use and enjoy them. 
In anticipation of this 1 event, it is not too early to commence 
an examination of society — great complex that it is — to see 
wherein it may be found dying, dead, defective, callous, crooked, 
overgrown, or out of gear and balance, and by a strict com- 
parison with the standard of nature, law and equity, to deter- 
mine and restore its just proportions, machinery and life — 
germinating anew the body-politic in the discordant elements 
of the old, as the bones, sinews, flesh and finish of a perfect 
man, inspired by the breath of heaven, fed by its own hands 
from the garden of the Almighty, the arteries of life from its 
great heart, and the nerves from its inmost soul, assuring 
health, sense and nourishment to every active member. 

Society, 

There are four points of doctrine, with reference to society, 
of general acceptance among the christian people of the world : 

1. God created man in His own image, in the image of 
God created He him ; male and female created He them. And 
God blessed them, and God said unto them, be fruitful, and 
multiply and replenish the earth, and subdue it. {Bible.) 

2. Of one blood made He all the nations of earth that 
dwell among men. And the whole earth was of one language 
and of one speech. {Bible.) 

3. All men are created equal; they are endowed by their 
creator with certain inalienable rights. Among these are life, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness, to secure which govern- 
ments are instituted among men, deriving their jnst powers 
from the consent of the governed. {Declaration of American 
Independence.) 

4. All things whatsoever ye would that men should do 
unto you, do ye even so unto them. {Bible.) 

The first of these declares our origin, the second our unity, 
the third our rights, the fourth our duties. The third is based 
on the first, second and fourth. 



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Divine Origin of Man. 

That we derive our existence from God, that in Him we 
live, and move, and have our being, is so evident to the senses, 
so clear to the judgment, so in accordance with nature, and so 
manifest to the christian heart, that if any fail to perceive it, 
they arc unworthy to be convinced. " They are corrupt, and 
have done abominable works; fools in heart, and vessels of 
wrath fitted to destruction." They are as they think, " like 
unto their idols," and "without God or hope in the world." 

But "we" who "believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker 
of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only (begotten) 
Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born 
of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was cruci- 
fied, dead and buried, descended into hades, rose on the third 
day, ascended into heaven, sitteth at the right hand of God, 
the Father Almighty, from thence he shall come to judge the 
quick and the dead. We — who — believe in the Holy Ghost, the 
holy catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness 
oi sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting" — 
we behold Him first and chiefly in our faith through His Holy 
Spirit, by which also we are being united into the building of 
Christ, and made whole and perfect in all our members, begin- 
ning with that which is nearest God, viz. the spirit. We see 
Him then by faith, as surely and certainly as a man can see his 
brother with his natural eyes. He is ever "about our bed and 
about our path, and spieth out all our ways." Because we 
love Him, he is come to us and has taken up his abode in us, 
and dwelleth in us richly. 

But how shall the blind see in his blindness, or the deaf 
hear, or the senseless feel ? Argument can not open their eyes ; 
the music of heaven falls heavily on their leaden ears ; the love 
of all the earth, if essenced into one, could not fill their stolid 
veins, and live. But the pleasure of the Almighty can do it ; 
for "it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but 
of God that showeth mercy," Let them then "ask and it shall 
be given unto them; seek, and they shall find; knock, and it 
shall be opened unto them : for every one that asketh receiveth ; 



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he that seeketh findeth, and to him that knocketh it shall 
be opened." 

Then, and not till then, can they say of a truth, looking 
upon nature and revelation from our present standpoint : I be- 
hold the handiwork, wisdom and goodness of God in all things 
visible. "I know that my Eedeemer liveth, that my God 
reigneth supreme in the heavens." 

Unity of Mankind. 

That. we are of one blood is no less evident, being founded 
on the same authority. 

The confusion of tongues and the scattering of man pre- 
vented the establishment of perpetual wickedness in the bond 
of friendly identity at the shrine of Babel; and the mutual 
jealousies of race, developed in a hundred forms, have to this 
day arrayed the w r icked against the wicked, and given power 
and prestige to the good. 

The more mighty iniquity becomes, the more manifest is the 
spirit of race and caste. These wage eternal strife or war, and 
destroy ungodly nations from the face of earth ; and if others 
rise instead, their fate will not be different. 

Wickedness can never extend its rule in peace, let its arm 
be ever so strong. Disintegration is the law of wrong; union 
the evidence of right. 

The disunited world shall yet join hearts and hands in peace 
and gladness, in the bosom of the Sun of Righteousness. The 
universal throne remains for Him, who by renewal of mankind 
shall restore the world to unity and the people to his truth. 

We therefore bless God that, though the councils of our 
fathers were divided by speech and by race, we, of every color, 
elime and tongue, shall be united again in the family of Christ 
and in the language of heaven. 

But if any appeal to more material reasons — behold the 
oaks of the forest, the dahlias in the garden, the peaches in the 
orchard, the corn in the field, the kittens on the hearth, the dogs 
in the fennel, the horses in the barn, the cattle in the yard, the 



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sheep in the pasture, and the Caucasians of Europe ! Who 
will affirm that all oaks are alike, or all dahlias, or peaches, or 
corn, or cats, or dogs, or horses, or cattle, or sheep, or Caucas- 
ians ? Yet are they not distinct families ? 

But it will be said, there is not the same difference as 
among us. The reply is simple, that where there is sufficient 
resemblance to determine an identity, no difference, however 
great, can destroy the fact. 

Let us therefore believe God who said : " Behold the people 
is one, and they have all one language." 

Our Universal Natural Eights— Life, Freedom and Property. 

That we are "created equal" is by no means so evident, in the 
ordinary interpretation of the term. There is perhaps a limited 
sense in which it may be thus understood ; nevertheless, the 
rule is, that "some are and must be greater than the rest." 

Thus, in the church there are many members of different 
offices and powers, but one body. And " the eye cannot say 
unto the hand I have no need of thee ; nor again the head to 
the feet, I have no need of you." All different, all useful, all 
free ! So, also, in the domestic world. Behold a dozen babes ! 
a dozen boys ! a dozen youths ! a dozen men of middle age ! a 
dozen in the decline of life ! 

The position of a child on the scale of being is modified by 
that of its parents and friends. As we increase in years and 
strength, influences become more numerous, powerful and 
varied. And it is doubtful if any two persons have ever been 
exactly equal, in all respects, before, or at, or after birth or death. 

Nor is it desirable that it should be so. It is far better to 
have them classified according to the necessary duties and 
offices of life. 

Such, indeed, appears to be the order of Providence 
throughout all nature. " There is one glory of the sun, and 
another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for 
one star differeth from another star in glory, So, also, is the 
resurrection of the dead." Such, therefore, will be the society 
of the millennium, and such, so far as practicable, should be the 
order of the present. 



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That we are endowed by our Creator with the "rights of life, 
liberty and the pursuit of happiness," is more clear. Indeed, it 
is not easy to perceive how the proposition can be controverted. 
It is based on the doctrines of our divine origin, unity and 
enjoined brotherly love. It commends itself to the better judg- 
ment of every intelligent good man. 

Life, liberty and happiness are so inseparably connected 
that we cannot enjoy the one unless we possess the others. 

Happiness is the essence of freedom and the crown of life. 
It is the sum of the hopes and anticipations of the human 
heart, and to be derived alone from the full satisfiaction of our 
normal wants in the just exercise of our natural powers, in the 
position to which our worth and ability entitle us. 

Wherefore, since these things are so, genuine happiness 
demands for every human being: first, the security of his life; 
second, the freedom of his person ; third, a pleasant home and 
family; fourth, an established society and government; fifth, 
an earth, sun, moon and universe, with a God over all, blessed 
forever. 

These, each taken in the widest sense of the term used, may 
be said to constitute the sum of man's necessities, and to afford 
him opportunity to satisfy his normal wants in the exercise of 
his natural powers, and enjoy that position in society and 
authority to which his worth and ability entitle him. 

The Golden Rule of Equity. 

The spirit of equity is the measure of civilization and the 
test of benevolence. 

And this equity: "All things whatsoever ye would that men 
should do unto you, do ye even so unto them." Such, also, is 
the law. 

What is it then we would that men should do unto us? 
We would have them assure to us the full satisfaction of our 
normal wants in the just exercise of our natural powers, and 
the positions in society and authority to which our worth and 
ability entitle us. 



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Then let us all do likewise, and it shall be even so as we 
have desired. 

Nevertheless, to generalize this principle so as to adapt it 
to mankind everywhere, will require much study and calcula- 
tion, but to apply it practically is a work of immense magni- 
tude, long continuance, and many difficulties. 

However, the outlines of such a system being adopted in 
theory, all things could be slowly and steadily transformed 
without prejudice or injury to any. Let us labor, therefore, for 
this most happy consummation. 

Then shall " mercy and truth meet together and righteous- 
ness and peace kiss each other," even as "when the morning 
stars sang in one accord and all the sons of God shouted for 

To this end let us henceforth dismiss the useless cares and 
toils of life, the fruitless vexations of the past, the mocking 
disappointments of the present, the uncertain anticipations of 
the future ! Yesterday is gone : to-morrow is not come. "We 
stand on the platform of to day: on the plank of this hour ; 
on the foothold of the moment of grace ! Vision and memory 
linger behind ; development and fancy press on before ! Judg- 
ment and action are alone beside us. 

Wherefore, without forgetting the past or despising the 
future, let us lay hold on the present and mould it into truth. 

But "let all things be done decently and in order." 

Social Faults, Defects and Overgrowth. 

There are many institutions, vocations and associations in 
life which are positively injurious to mankind. There are 
others unnecessary and therefore negatively injurious. In both 
cases a majority of the occupants would doubtless prefer to 
be of those engaged in the legitimate business of a correct 
society. 

And when we recollect that fig-leaf aprons were made 
because of sin, and that it is not well to patch an old garment 
with new cloth, we will conclude that temporary expedients are 



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unwise. They will not hide the real deformity of society; but 
rather, having lost their hold, will leave the rent worse than 
before, and your labor and expense be in vain. 

We must restore the body-politic to its original perfection, 
and renew its raiment from a whole piece of cloth. 

These things done, the faults, defects and overgrowth will 
be no longer manifest. 

The perfection of society is the work of Christianity and 
her assistants, but its garments must be fashioned by the hands 
of its own members. 

Organization of Society. 

True government operates from the centres of society, by 
the will and consent of its members. 

Even the Almighty does not force man to become a loyal 
subject of his kingdom; but once in his service we must com- 
ply with all the requirements of law. 

Christ as the center, directed his apostles, and breathed his 
spirit on them ; and each of the twelve, as a center, shall sit 
upon a throne, judging one of the twelve tribes of Israel. 

The solar sun directs the planets round about, and Jupiter 
and Saturn their respective satellites. 

The President of the Eepublic directs the affairs of the 
People through the national departments, and the head of each 
department the business thereof through its several bureaus. 

The General-in-chief directs the national forces through field 
commanders, who direct their armies through corps commanders 
who direct their corps through division commanders, who 
direct their divisions through brigade commanders, who direct 
their brigades through regimental commanders, who direct 
their regiments through company commanders, who direct their 
companies by and with the assistance, in order, of one or two 
lieutenants, four or five sergeants, seven or eight corporals, and 
fifty or sixty privates. « 

Such is the government of an army. Authority and com- 
mand go out from centre to circumference, as rain, heat and 
sun-light from heaven. 



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Now, it is not desirable that society should be formed after 
the plan of a grand army, except in this, that authority and 
command, based on a constitution and laws adopted by the 
people, should radiate from a common point through a succes- 
sion of centres down to the circumference, and thus, from a 
government combining beauty, symmetry and force with the 
human assurance, to every inhabitant, of life, freedom and 
property in the just exercise of his natural powers. 

National Governments and their Capitals. 

A national government should, so far as practicable, be in 
all respects a national one. 

In the present conformation of the earth -and world, a 
government should comprise a Grand Division of the Globe. 

On the Western Continent, North America, with the West 
India and other contiguous islands, should form one, having its 
capital as near as practicable to the geographical center of 
the habitable regions thereof. 

This might be called the Eepublic of North America. 

Its Capital the Metropolis. 

States and State Capitals. 
The Eepublic of North America (the habitable portion) 
should be divided, as nearly as practicable, into states of equal 
dimensions, each having its capital at or near its center. 

Counties and County Capitals. 
Every state of the Eepublic should be subdivided, as nearly 
as practicable, into counties of equal dimensions, each having 
its capital at or near its center. 

Districts and District Capitals- 
Every county of each of the several states of the Eepublic 
should be subdivided, as nearly as practicable, into districts 
of equal dimensions — not> to exceed nine square miles — each 
having its capital at or near its center. 



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Subdivisions of Cities. 

The Metropolis should be considered as a state; each state 
capital as a county; each county capital as a district; and each 
district capital as a part of its district. 

The primary divisions of the Metropolis should be consid- 
ered as counties; its secondary. divisions as districts. 

•The divisions of a state capital should be considered aa 
districts. 

A county capital should have no divisions. 

Subdivision of Districts. 

Districts should be subdivided into public lots and private 
homesteads, • 

Both these should be determined by national law, as to 
number, dimensions and finish. 

There should be public plats for an exchange and storage 
depot, a church, schoolhouse, capitol, library, athenseum, muse- 
um, gymnasium, park, garden, greenhouse, fountain and baths ,- 
also, for quarters for the public officers and employees of the 
district — including a president, secretary, quartermaster, and 
assistants, with their families. 

There should be private homesteads for all competent 
inhabitants not in the public service, which should be of size 
and finish to accord with the locality and business of the place r 
the nature of the soil and climate, and the wealth and enter- 
prise of the district. 

All the homesteads of a district should be of the same size, 
and be furnished by the district in a like manner ; but each 
freeholder ought, in addition, to improve his home and home- 
stead to the best of his ability, at his own expense. 

No person should possess more than one homestead in the 
Republic, which should vary in size and finish — in a county not 
more than one-fourth — in a state not more than one-half — in 
the Republic not more than one, — except this, that city and 
country homesteads should be considered separately. 

All these to be determined by national law. 



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Property, Marriage and Inheritance- 

These should be regulated by national law; but freeholders 
should consist only of the following classes of persons: All 
married men, widows of freeholders, maiden orphans of free- 
holders, and widowers, who have had, in the respective classes, 
fully one year's residence in the Eepublic; and all persons under 
twenty years of age who are orphans of freeholders. 

Any real estate found occupied by an incompetent holder 
should be at once appropriated as public property by the 
district in which it is situate, to be sold at public auction, with- 
out charge or delay, for cash, to the highest bidder who is an 
unprovided competent freeholder. 

Marriage certificates should be given and contracts endorsed 
by the president of the district wherein the bride is resident, 
on recommendation of an epoux from the resident districts of 
each, to free persons of full age, good estate and compos mentis. 
The proceedings of every marriage, with duplicates of certifi- 
cates and contracts, should be filed in both districts, and the 
union announeed in the county of each. No young man should 
marry in his native district, nor among the members of his 
grandparents' families, or his direct affinities. The districts 
(or counties, states or nations) thus united in the banns of virtue 
and beauty, should be considered forever after as indissolubly 
connected in the offspring of friendly identity, and the honor 
of the peoples bound up in the representative pair. 

I will not here dwell upon incontinence, nor any cause of 
separation, neither upon the deformity, misery or want of chil- 
dren; for, where society is so regulated that the accomplish- 
ments, tastes, affections and angelic passions of unity may 
govern our selections, love will increase forever and the very 
names of unworthiness and wretchedness become unknown in 
the uninterrupted enjoyment of conjugal felicty and parental 
delight. 

On the decease of a freeholder his title should pass, first, to 
his widow, maiden daughters and minor children ; second, to 
all his and his wife's (or wives') unmarried daughters and minor 
children ; third, to the youngest of his sons, or his wife's (or 



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wives') sons, married and living with him at the time of his 
death, and not an occupant freeholder; fourth, to his district. 

Any homestead in the hands of a district should be sold at 
public auction, without charge or delay, for cash, to the highest 
bidder who may be a competent unprovided freeholder. 

Movable property should be disposed of according to the 
will of the owner; but where one has died intestate, it might 
take the same course as real estate. 

The spirit of this rule of conveyance is, that when a man 
dies, his wife, being the surviving part of him, with the more 
dependent members of his family, should be secured a perma- 
nent estate during life or dependence, and that no home should 
pass to any one holding another, nor to any person who is not 
of the immediate family of the deceased owner; but if there 
be no unprovided competent widow, son or daughter, that it 
pass to the district wherein it is situate. 

Voters, Officers, Employees and Minors. 

Every man of two years' residence in the Republic, and 
one in a particular district, and over twenty years of age, 
should have one vote therein. No person without such qualifi- 
cations should have a vote, nor under any circumstances more 
than one. 

No officer should hold more than one office at a time. A 
member of Congress is not to be considered an officer, as such; 
but rather as a member of the next lower cabinet and president 
of its body politic, which he represents in the next higher. 

No employee should hold more than one place at a time, 
acting under the directions of but one actuary. 

All persons under twenty years of age are minors, and 
should, with widows, and orphan maidens at every age, be 
specially protected by the laws. Their positions should be 
according to those of their husbands and fathers, as though 
they had remained alive. 



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Essential Requisites of Law. 

National law, to be valid, should include by possibility of 
circumstance and condition, all the states, or all the counties, or 
all the districts, or all the people, or all citizens — whether 
officers, employees or privates — of a certain rank or grade 
throughout the Eepublic. National enactments, not of gen- 
eral application, or applying only to one or more bodies-politic 
or persons, should become law only by consent of such parties. 

State law, to be valid, should be, in like manner, of general 
application throughout the state; but otherwise of no force 
without the consent of the parties to whom it appertains. 

County law, also, if of special application, should not be 
valid without the consent of the particulars for whom it is 
intended. 

District law, too, should be measured by the same rule of 
general application. 

No circumstance should be held impossible which it is within 
power, human or divine, to bring to pass. 



District Offices and Employments. 

A district should have, at its capital, an exchange and 
storage depot, a church, schoolhouse, capitol, library, athe- 
naeum, museum, gymnasium, park, garden, greenhouse, fountain, 
baths, and other conveniences. The depot should be for the 
purchase, storage and sale of commodities for, and belonging 
to, the district. 

Here alone its inhabitants should make, with the quarter- 
master, all their sales and purchases, paying and receiving 
cash , at prices regulated by law. 

Every district should have a president, vice-president, secre- 
tary, quartermaster, and assistants, each of whom should be 
furnished rations, clothing, and quarters for himself and family, 
and receive in addition a personal salary in money. 

The number of officers and assistants, the kind and allow- 
ance of clothing, rations and quarters, and the amount of 
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salary to be furnished each, should be determined, and from 
time to time modified, by national law, and provided by the 
district. 

The officers should be chosen by the citizens (which is to 
say, the congress) thereof, from among those of their number 
between the ages of twenty and thirty, who have had three 
years' residence therein and ten in the Republic. They should 
continue in service ten years from the date of election, unless 
meantime removed by the district for incompetency, dishon- 
esty or incivility, or by the acceptation of a higher office. 

The employees of a district should be appointed by the 
president thereof, with the approval of the district congress, 
to continue in service during life, unless removed for incompe- 
tency, dishonesty or incivility, or by accepting a higher position. 

Every employee of a district, disabled in the service thereof, 
by unavoidable accident, disease or old age, should be placed 
on the retired list during such incompetency, and provided with 
rations, clothing and quarters. 

The orphan minorand incompetent children of deceased or 
disabled employees should be provided by their district with 
rations, clothing and quarters. 

When charges of dishonesty, incompetency or incivility are 
duly preferred, in writing, against an officer or employee of a 
district, and attested under seal by three citizens thereof, the 
accused should be held in arrest, to be tried at once, before the 
district congress, at its next meeting, which should determine 
the case without adjournment or appeal. 

The sentence should be positive — either dismissal or resto- 
ration. 

When the president is the accused, then the secretary should 
preside. 

In every case the accused should make, or have made, a 
statement of defense to the congress, command and examine 
such resident counsel and witnesses as he might select, argue 
his cause, or have it argued for him, and then await the decision 
of the congress. 

A citizen being one of those preferring certain charges 



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against an officer or employee, or having advised that such 
charges ought to be preferred, should become thereby ineligible 
fer ten years thereafter to the public office or employment from 
which such officer or employee will have been removed in 
pursuance thereof. 

Duties of Officers and Employees. 

These should be determined and from time to time modified 
by national law. 

The president — or, during his absence, or by his order, the 
vice-president — should have general control and management, 
subject to law, of all the public business, affairs and property 
of his district; besides exercising a fatherly supervision over 
widows and orphans, and over the young and helpless who may 
be destitute and needy — having in such case the full powers of 
a court of equity. He should be special auditor and comp- 
troller of the public funds and accounts, and of commodities in 
transitu. 

The president should represent his district in its county 
congress, also in all circumstances not otherwise provided by 
law, or by his order. 

The secretary should have charge of the public funds, 
accounts, books, correspondence, library, museum, athenaeum 
and journal. 

The quartermaster should have charge of the procuration 
of all public property, and of the safe-keeping and management 
of such as might not be entrusted to the secretary. He should 
have special charge of the clothing, quarters, subsistence, and 
of payments to officers and employees; also, of the district 
railroad and equipage, and of the storage and transportation 
of commodities to and from his county's capital. 

Employees should be of three classes : first, president's 
assistants; second, secretary's assistants; third, quartermaster's 
assistants. 

The president, secretary and quartermaster of a district 
should, during the first week of every month, make to the 



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corresponding county pfficer a full and complete report of their 
respective departments for the month preceding. 

The citizens of a district should meet in congress, in their 
capitol, on Monday night of every week, immediately after tea, 
for the transaction of public business and for mutual consulta- 
tion and advice. The president (or vice-president) should 
preside, and have no vote unless they be equally divided. 

The inhabitants also should meet in social, at their district 
capitol, every Saturday evening, immediately after dinner, for 
interchange of greetings, news, ideas, sympathies and criticisms. 

Every district exchange and storage depot should be con- 
nected with that of its county by railroad and telegraph — the 
former under charge of the quartermaster, the latter under that 
of the secretary. 

An accurate journal of district events should be kept by 
tne secretary, including all arrivals and departures, births and 
deaths, majorities and marriages, and other items of interest 
and importance not included in the business reports. An 
abstract thereof should be forwarded to the county secretary 
once a month. 



Personal and District Assurance and Relief. 

Any inhabitant who is unable to provide his own wants, 
or those of his family, on account of his or their disability, 
should have such necessities furnished by his district, and the 
amount charged against him without interest — the same to be 
refunded so soon as he might feel able. 

The disability of the sufferer, or suffering family, should be 
determined by the district congress. 

. The debt, if not sooner cancelled, should be considered as 
annulled on the decease of the debtor. 

So, also, if a district be unable for a time to defray its regu- 
lar expenses, made in pursuanee of national, state or county 
law, the deficiency should be provided by its county during 
such inability — the amount to be charged without interest, and 
refunded so soon as the district might feel able. 



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The inability of a district to defray its regular expenses 
should be determined by its county congress. 

Any unavoidable loss of property by lire, storm or violence, 
should be restored in like manner by a district to its inhabit- 
ants, and by a county to its districts — but without charge in 
either case. 



County Offices and Employments. 

A county should have at its capital an exchange and storage 
depot, a church, academy, capitol, library, athenaeum, museum, 
laboratory, gymnasium, hotel, theatre, forest, park, garden, 
greenhouse, fountain, baths and other public institutions and 
conveniences. 

The depot should be for the purchase, storage and sale of 
commodities belonging to the county. Here alone its several 
districts should make their sales and purchases, paying and 
receiving cash, at prices regulated by national law. 

The depot should be connected with that of its state by rail 
and wire. 

The government of a county should consist of a cabinet 
and a congress. 

County Congresses. 

The congress of a county should consist of the presidents 
of its several districts, assembled in its capitol. 

* The president — or, during his absence, or by his order, the 
vice-president — of the county should preside over the congress, 
and have no vote unless they be equally divided. 

The congress should meet on the first Wednesday of every 
November, continuing one year less one day (the several mem- 
bers returning to their own homes every evening,) and have 
power to legislate for its county, subject to state and national 
law ; also, on call of one-third its members, subject to the voice 
of its citizens, with reference to any particular specified mea- 
sure, negative or positive. 



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Any business remaining unfinished at the moment of annua 
adjournment, should be'thereupon null and void; subject, how- 
ever, to a renewal ab initio by the next congress. 

A delegation of ladies, consisting of one or more from each 
district, appointed and accompanied by the president thereof, 
(usually his own wife, sisters and mother, or other members of 
his immediate family,) should meet in the ladies' hall of the 
capitol during the sessions of the congress. 

A lady, appointed by the county president (usually his own 
mother, wife or sister,) should preside. 

This body ought, in concert with the ladies' county cabinet, 
to discuss, advise and regulate all topics and affairs pertaining 
to the ladies' department, purely so called. The manner of 
procedure should be similar to that of the congress of gentlemen. 

County Cabinets. 

A county cabinet should consist of a president, vice-presi- 
dent, assistant vice-president, secretary, general, treasurer, 
inspector, auditor, comptroller, register, pastor, surgeon, phy- 
sician, chemist, advocate, agriculturist, horticulturist, manu- 
facturist, educator, editor, mathematician, architect, surveyor, 
quartermaster and commissary. 

Each should be provided with a sufficient number of assist- 
ants, to be appointed by the county president from among his 
districts' employees, with the approval of his congress. These 
should have the same privileges and guaranties, and be subject 
to like terms and conditions as district employees of corres- 
ponding grades. 

Members of the cabinet should be elected by vote of the 
citizens of the county, assembled in district congress, from 
among those of their several district presidents who are over 
twenty-five and under thirty-five years of age, and who have 
served at least five years as district presidents. 

Each member elect should continue in such service ten years 
from the date of election, unless sooner removed by his county 
for incivility, incompetency or dishonesty, or by the acceptation 
of a state office. 



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The process for removing a county cabinet officer or an 
employee, should be as follows : specific charges should be pre- 
ferred against him in writing, and attested under seal by 
three cabinet and by three county officers, separately, or by 
order of the congress. 

The accused should be thereupon held in arrest, to be tried 
at once before the congress, in the same manner and with like 
privileges as district officers ; and at its next meeting his case 
decided, as a public measure, subject also, if the accused be 
convicted (on call of one-third the congress) to the pleasure of 
the citizens of the county, at their next meeting in district con- 
gress, whose decision should be final. 

But if the county congress fail to find the accused guilty 
he should be restored at once, without action of the people. 

In either case the verdict should be positive — either dismis- 
sal or restoration. 

The county president (or, in his absence, the vice-president) 
should have general control and direction, subject to law, of 
the public affairs, property and business of his county, and 
preside over its cabinet and congress. 

The president alone should represent his county in the con- 
gress of its state. 

The vice-president should act under special instructions of 
his president while present, and in his stead during his absence. 

The duties of president, vice-president, assistant vice-presi- 
dent, secretary, and other county officers and employees, should 
be determined, and from time to time modified, by national law. 

Every county cabinet officer should make to the corres- 
ponding state actuary, during the second week of each month, 
a full and complete report of his. department for the month 
preceding. 

A ladies' cabinet should be appointed by the county presi- 
dent, with the approval of his cabinet. The president thereof 
should be of the family of the president, the secretary of that 
of the secretary, the treasurer of that of the treasurer, and 
every other lady, so far as practicable, of the immediate family 
of the corresponding gentleman officer. 



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The manner of procedure, including reports to state actua- 
ries, should be similar, and each hold office during the tenure 
of her family representative in the cabinet of gentlemen. 

County Assurance and Relief. 

A county, unable to defray its expenses, made in pursuance 
of national or state law, should be provided by its state — the 
amount charged without interest and to be refunded so soon as 
the county might feel able. 

A state should be judge of the ability of its several counties 
to defray their ordinary expenses. 

Any unavoidable loss of property occurring to a county on 
account of fire, storm or violence, should be provided by its 
state, in like manner, but without charge. 

State Officers and Employments. 

A state should have at its capital an exchange and storage 
depot, a church, college, capitol, library, athenaeum, museum, 
laboratory, gymnasium, hotel, opera, theatre, park, forest, 
plantation, garden, greenhouse, fountain, baths and other public 
institutions and conveniences. 

The depot should be for the purchase, storage and sale of 
commodities belonging to, or intended for, the state. Here its 
several counties should make their sales and purchases, paying 
and receiving cash, at prices regulated by law. 

The depot should be connected with the national exchange 
and storage depot by rail and wire. 

The government of a state should consist of a cabinet and 
a congress. 

State Congresses. 

The congress of a state should consist of the presidents of 
its several counties, assembled in its capitol. 

The state president (or, during his absence, or by his order, 
the vice-president,) should preside over the congress, and have 
no vote unless they be equally divided. 



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The congress should meet in its capitol on the first Wednes- 
day of every October, continuing one year less one day, and 
have power to legislate for its state, subject to national law ; 
also, on call of one-third its members, subject to the voice of its 
citizens, with reference to any particular specified measure, 
positive or negative. 

Any business remaining unfinished at the moment of annual 
adjournment, should be thereupon null and void, subject how- 
ever to renewal ab initio in the next congress. 

A delegation of ladies, consisting of one or more from each 
county, appointed and accompanied by the president thereof, 
(generally his wife, sisters and mother, or other members of his 
immediate family,) should meet in the ladies' hall in the capitol, 
during the sessions of the congress. 

A lady, appointed by the state president (usually his mother, 
wife or sister) should preside. 

This body ought, in concert with the ladies' state cabinet, to 
discuss, advise and regulate all topics and affairs pertaining to 
the ladies' department — purely so called. 

The manner of procedure should be about the same as in 
the congress of gentlemen. 

State Cabinets. 

A state cabinet should consist of a president, vice-presi- 
dent, assistant vice-president, secretary, general, treasurer, 
inspector, auditor, comptroller, register, pastor, surgeon, physi- 
cian, chemist, advocate, editor and educator, mathematician, 
historian, agriculturist, horticulturist, floriculturist, astronomist, 
botanist, zoologist, geologist, mineralogist, nauticalist, artist, 
manufacturist, machinist, architect, surveyor* engineer, paymas- 
ter, quartermaster, commissary, and representatives for such 
other industries and employments as by national law might 
be judged worthy of official representation in the states. 

Each of these should be provided with a sufficient number 
of assistants, the same to be appointed by the state president, 
from among his counties' employees, with the approval of his 
congress. 



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These should have the same privileges and guaranties, and 
be subject to the like terms and conditions as county employees 
of corresponding grades. 

Members of cabinet should be elected by the citizens of 
the state, assembled in district congress, from among those of 
the several cabinet officers of the respective counties (including 
members of state congress,) who are under forty years of age 
and over thirty, and who have served at least five years as 
county cabinet officers, as follows : the president for the state 
to be chosen from among the presidents of its several coun- 
ties, the vice-president in like manner from among the county 
vice-presidents, and the other officers of state, so far as 
practicable, from the corresponding county actuaries. 

Officers of a state, not represented in the counties, should be 
filled from the incumbents of the county offices which most 
nearly resemble those of state to be supplied — this point of 
resemblance to be determined by national law. 

Each member elect should continue in such service ten 
years from the date of his election, unless sooner removed for 
incivility, incompetency or dishonesty, or by the acceptation of 
a national (including assistant diplomatic) office. 

The process for removing a state cabinet officer, or an 
employee, should be similar to that for the removal of a county 
actuary. 

The verdict, also, should be rendered in like manner. 

The president (or, during his absence, or by his order, 
the vice-president) should have, subject to law, general control 
and direction of the affairs, business and property of his state, 
and preside over its cabinet and congress. 

The president should represent his state in the national 
congress. 

The vice-president should act under special instructions of 
his president, while present, and in his stead during his absence. 

The duties of the president, vice-president, assistant vice- 
president, secretary, and other state officers and employees 
should be determined, and from time to time modified, by 
national law. 



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Every state cabinet actuary should make to the corres- 
ponding officer of the national cabinet, during the third week 
of each month, a full and complete report of his department for 
the month preceding. 

A ladies' cabinet should be appointed by the state presi- 
dent, with the approval of his cabinet, as follows: the president 
thereof to be of the family of the president, and every other 
lady actuary, so far as practicable, of the immediate family of 
the corresponding gentleman officer. 

The manner of procedure should be about the same, and 
each hold office during the tenure of her family representative 
in the cabinet of gentlemen. 

National Navy, Merchants and Marine, as a State, 

The navy should be modeled and organized, as nearly as 
might be, after the fashion of a terra firma state, and be repre- 
sented and governed in like manner, so far as practicable. 

State Assurance and Relief. 

Any state, which for a time may be unable to defray its 
ordinary expenses, made in pursuance of national law, should 
be provided by the Eepublic — the amount charged without 
interest, and to be refunded so soon as the state might feel able. 

The Eepublic should be judge of the ability of the respect- 
ive states to defray their ordinary expenses. 

Any unavoidable loss of property occurring to a state, on 
account of fire, storm, or violence, should be sustained by the 
Eepublic, in like manner, but without charge. 

National Offices and Employments. 

The Eepublic should have at its capital — the Metropolis — 
an exchange and storage depot, a church, university, capitol, 
library, athenaeum, museum, laboratory, gymnasium, hotel, 
opera, theatre, forest, plantation, garden, greenhouse, fountain, 
baths, and other national institutions and public conveniences. 



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The depot should be for the purchase, storage and sale of 
commodities belonging to, or intended for, the Eepublic. 

Here its several states should make their sales and pur- 
chases, paying and receiving cash, at prices regulated by law. 

The depot should be connected with those of its respective 
states by rail and wire; also, in like manner, with national 
depots for foreign trade, situate on the north, the south, the 
east and the west, at points most eligible for commerce with 
the outer world. Those should be called foreign exchange and 
storage depots, and be located in safe and commodious harbors, 
and controlled and managed by national cabinet officers and 
their assistants, elected and appointed for such purpose in the 
established manner. 

The government of the Eepublic should consist of a cabinet 
and a congress. 

The National Congress. 

The congress of the Eepublic should consist of the presi- 
dents of its several states, assembled in its capitol. 

The national president (or, during his absence, or by his 
order, the vice-president) should preside over the congress, and 
have no vote unless they be equally divided. 

The national congress should meet in its capital, on the 
first Wednesday of September, every year, and have power to 
legislate for the nation, subject to fundamental law — tself 
being the judge — also, on call of one-third its members, subject 
to the voice of the citizens of the Eepublic, with reference to 
any particular specified measure, positive or negative, whether 
order, resolution, vote or other proposition, except a motion to 
adjourn for a limited time and for specific reasons. 

The ladies' national congress should be formed after the 
plan of a ladies 7 state congress. 

It should continue during the entire session, and the manner 
of procedure be about the same as in the national congress of 
gentlemen. 

The congress of the Eepublic should continue in session 
one year less one day, from the first Wednesday of September 



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(Sundays excepted.) No unfinished business should lie over, 
but all such become null and void at the moment of annual 
adjournment, subject, however, to renewal ab initio in the next 
congress. 

The National Cabinet. 

The national cabinet should consist of a president, vice- 
president, assistant vice-president, secretary, and such other 
officers as by national law might be judged necessary, including 
all those mentioned under the caption of "State Cabinets." 

Each officer should be provided with a sufficient number of 
assistants, to be appointed by the national president, from 
among his states' employees, with the approval of the national 
congress. These should have the same privileges and guaran- 
ties, and be subject to the same terms and conditions as state 
employees of corresponding grades. 

The several members of the national cabinet should be 
elected by the citizens of the Republic, from among those 
of the corresponding cabinet officers from the several states, 
(including members of the national congress,) who are under 
forty-five years of age and over thirty-five, and w 7 ho have 
served at least five years as state cabinet officers, as follows : 
the national president to be chosen from among the several 
state presidents, and the other national officers, so far as 
practicable, from among the corresponding state actuaries. 

National offices (except diplomatic) not represented in states, 
should be filled from among the incumbents of the state offices 
which most nearly resemble those of the Republic to be sup- 
plied — this point of resemblance to be determined by law. 

They should each serve ten years from the date of election, 
unless sooner removed for incivility, incompetency or dishon- 
esty, and at the expiration of the full term be transferred to 
the corps diplomatic, and thence, after ten years' faithful service, 
to the corps of honor, there to continue during life. 

The process for the removal of a cabinet officer or an em- 
ployee should be similar to that for removal of a state actuary. 

The verdict should be rendered in like manner. 



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The president (or, during his absence, or by his order, the 
vice-president) should have general control and direction, sub- 
ject to law, of the affairs, business and property of the Eepub- 
lic, and preside over its cabinet and congress. 

The vice-president should act under special instructions of 
the president while present, and in his stead during his absence. 

The duties of president, vice-president and other national 
officers and employees should be determined, and from time to 
time modified, by law. 

Every officer of the national cabinet should publish, during 
the last week of every month, for distribution to all state r 
county and district libraries, and to national, state and county 
offices throughout the Eepublic, a report in brief of his depart- 
ment for the month preceding, and a telegraphic summary of 
that just closing. 

These reports should be accompanied by a consolidated 
cabinet statement, made in pursuance of national law, regu- 
lating the price current of all commodities, and the rates of 
tariff and of transportation in and for every district, county, 
state, and the Republic, for the ensuing month ; also, an esti- 
mate of the probable modifications to take place therein during 
the ensuing year. 

This statement should be made according to general 
national regulations, modified from time to time. 

The cash system alone should be used by every body-politic 
within the Eepublic; and full, specific and complete records 
kept on file in every office, subject always to public and official 
inspection. 

There should be no bonds, no mortgages, no stocks, no 
borrowing, no lending, no debit less nor more than credit ; but 
if any one is needy, let his superior supply his wants: and if 
the Eepublic is in distress, and the people cannot relieve it, let 
all suffer cheerfully together, until they get relief from heaven 
in the growth of a new crop. 

The Eepublic should be judge of the ability of its states, 
each state of its counties, each county of its districts, and each 
district of its inhabitants. 



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Each department of government, national, state, county 
and district, should determine by law its own specific rates 
of tax, tariff and transportation, subject to general national 
regulations and the law of its immediate superior. 

Department of Diplomacy, 

Every national cabinet officer, at the expiration of his full 
term of service therein, should be transferred to the corps 
diplomatic, without relative change of position. 

The ex-president should be chief of the corps, all the others 
to act under his directions. 

They should continue in such service ten years, from the 
date of entry thereinto, and be thence transferred to the depart- 
ment of honor for life. 

They should each be provided with a sufficient number of 
assistants for ministerial and consular duties, the same to be 
appointed by the president of the Republic, on recommendation 
of the chief of diplomacy, and with the approval of the national 
congress, from among those officers of the several state cabinets 
who are over forty-five years of age ; or if there should be an 
insufficient number of such, then of those state cabinet officers 
who have honorably served as such more than eight and less 
than ten years. 

The corps diplomatic should act through their chief, under 
authority of the national president. 

Assistant diplomatic officers should continue in such service 
ten years, from the date of appointment, unless sooner removed 
for incivility, incompetency or dishonesty, in the manner pre- 
scribed for other national officers. 

Monthly and special reports should be transmitted from 
each diplomatist through his chief to the president of the 
Eepublic. 

Department of Honor. 

Every diplomatic officer, (except assistants,) having served 
full ten years as such, should be transferred to the corps of 



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honor, without relative change of position, there to continue 
during life. 

At death they should be buried with national honors, their 
bodies embalmed, and every monument inscribed with the 
name, age and history of its illustrious dead. 

Systems of Popular Expression and Constituent Instruction. 

Popular expression is made by the citizens of a body-politic 
upon any certain specific measure, positive or negative, sub- 
mitted to the people on appeal made by one-third the members 
of its congress from the decision of a majority thereof. 

Such decision should be final, unless reversed by the same 
authority after five years, or by a higher (if any) at any time. 

Constituent instruction is made as follows : by a district 
congress to its president as representative in its county con- 
gress ; by a county congress to its president as representative 
in its state congress ; by a state congress to its president as 
representative in the congress of the Republic; by the con- 
gress of the Eepublic to the president thereof as the national 
representative to foreign powers. 

Such instructions should be binding absolutely on every 
president of a body-politic, and any virtual non-compliance 
punished as dishonesty. 

Oath of Duty. 

Every public actuary should, before entering upon the 
duties of his office or employment, affirm and subscribe to the 
following obligation, to be administered to him by the highest 
ranking actuary of the body with which he is Jto serve, and in 
the presence of such body duly assembled : 

I, a citizen of lot No. , district No. , county 

No. , state No. , of the Eepublic of North America, 

do hereby most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear, in 
the presence of Almighty God and this honorable body, that 
having been duly, justly and lawfully elected (or appointed) by 
on the day of 18 — , to the office (or employ- 



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ment) of in the , here to continue for the term of 

years from the aforesaid date of election, (or appointment,) un- 
less sooner removed by the authority of for incivility, 

incompetency or dishonesty, or by the acceptation of a higher 
position, or by death, I will during such term, to the best of 
my knowledge and ability, obey all orders and wishes of my 
constituents and superiors, bearing true faith, allegiance and 
loyalty to the same, and preserve, protect, defend, improve, 
honor and perpetuate the Republic of North America, its 
several constituent parts, and especially this body-politic, recog- 
nizing the authority of our nation as the highest on earth — so 
help me God. (Signed,) 



Uniform, Rank, Pay and Allowances of Officers and Employees. 

The uniform, rank, pay and allowances of all public actu- 
aries — national, state, county and district — should be determined 
and from time to time modified by national law. 

County officers and employees should rank a degree above 
the corresponding district actuaries; those of state in like 
manner above county, and those of the Eepublic above state. 

The pay and allowances of a public actuary should corres- 
pond with his grade and rank, and he should be provided with 
quarters, rations and clothing for himself and family at his 
place of business by the body-politic he serves ; likewise, by 
the same body, with a certain salary in money, as compensation 
for his personal services. 

Members of the corps diplomatic should have, in addition to 
their regular pay and allowances as national actuaries, their 
personal expenses defrayed by the Eepublic, not exceeding in 
each case a certain specified sum. 

Every grade and rank of officers and employees, national, 
state, county and district, should wear a certain uniform and 
insignia, to be prescribed and from time to time modified by 
national law, and furnished by the body-politic in whose im- 
mediate service the officer or employee is — -no two fashions to 

be alike. 

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The wives, minor children and maiden daughters of public 
actuaries should dress in certain corresponding costumes, pre- 
scribed by the national congress of ladies, to be also furnished 
by the corresponding bodies-politic. 

Resignation of States, Counties, Districts and Lots. 

These should be arranged by national law, and designated 
by figures from one upward, numbering as follows : the states 
from the national capitol, the Metropolis being No. 1 ; that 
state whose capitol is nearest the national capitol, No. 2, and 
thus on to the end. 

Counties should be numbered in like manner from their 
state capitol, that being No. 1 ; the county whose capitol is 
nearest, No. 2, and thus on to the end. 

Districts in like manner from their county capitol, that being 
No. 1. 

Lots (whether plantations, gardens, public plats, or quarters 
of officers or employees) to be designated in like manner from 
their exchange depot, that plat being No. 1. 

The vessels of the Navy should be designated in their 
divisions and subdivisions in like manner. 

On the exchange depot spire of every state, county and 
district, and on the most prominent point or edifice of every 
lot, should be inscribed in bold relief the full designation of the 
place, including the direction and steps to the Metropolis ; for 
example : Lot 60, District 50, County 30, State 20, of the Ee- 

public of North America. To the Metropolis miles 

hours. — deg. — min. longitude, — deg. — min. north latitude. 

Substitute Officers. 

Every officer, on being elected to a higher position, should 
appoint a substitute from among those of that body, from 
which he had been selected, who are ineligible forever to that 
to which he is chosen. This substitute should act for his prin- 
cipal only in case of disability or decease of the latter, and then 
only until such disability had been removed, or a successor 



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regularly elected and installed; but in no case without the 
positive consent of the cabinet of which the disabled was or is 
a member. 

Vacancies in the corps diplomatic should be filled by the 
national president, on approval of the congress, from among 
the members of the corps or their assistants. 



Courts of Law and Equity. 

Justice is the measure of legislation and the perfection of 
equity; but the courts, civil and criminal, are held to administer 
according to law and fact. 

The legislative power, rightly understood, is at all times 
supreme authority within its proper jurisdiction, even as a 
father is at all times master in his own family. 

This power should consist of the people, so far as possible, 
otherwise of their representatives speaking for them; but in 
either case the legislative authority is supreme arbitrer of law, 
which every court is to take as it finds, and act accordingly — 
pressing toward the line of justice where the statute inclines to 
severity, without however varying one jot or tittle from the 
strict course laid down. 

In the Eepublic of North America the courts should con- 
sist of the congresses, and all cases, civil and criminal, be heard 
and decided as measures of law. The process of indictment, 
arrest and trial in criminal prosecutions should be the same as 
in the case of a public actuary accused of incivility, incompe- 
tency or dishonesty. 

A general statute should be established by national law, 
classifying, grading and defining all crimes and misdemeanors, 
simple, compound and complex; and a certain penalty, with a 
margin of fixed limitations for the judgments of the several 
courts, in cases brought before them, should be attached to the 
violation of each. Questions of jurisdiction, authority, trial, 
judgment, sentence, punishment, remedy and satisfaction, (and 
in civil cases of damages and settlements,) should be established 
by national law, on the basis of universal justice and expediency. 



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No person should be deprived of life, limb or other faculty, 
except under circumstances wherein, for certain particular 
specified reasons, the public safety might be, by the highest 
authority, judged to require it. 

Telegraph System. 

The national exchange and storage depot should be con- 
nected separately by wire with that of each of its several states 
and foreign ports ; in like manner that of a state with each of 
its several county depots ; that of a county with each of its 
district depots, and that of a district with each dwelling house 
and office therein. 

Announcements of the latest telegrams should be kept con- 
stantly posted in every district exchange depot. 

Newspaper System. 

There should be as many grades of newspapers as there 
are bodies-politic, viz, six: personal, family, district, county, 
state and national. 

1. Personal. A journal should be kept for every person, 
posted once a day, immediately after breakfast, to be conducted 
by every competent person by himself, and for every incom- 
petent by its parent or guardian. Uniform blank books for this 
purpose, properly designated, dated, arranged and inscribed 
should be provided yearly, on the first day of January (or last 
of December) by every district for each of its members, and at 
birth for every child. 

2. Family. A journal should be kept by the head of every 
family, to be posted daily at the breakfast hour. Uniform 
blank books for this purpose, properly prepared, should be 
provided yearly, on the first day of January (or the last of 
December) by every county for its respective families, and at 
marriage for every spouse. 

3. District. A daily journal of events and history should 
be kept by every district, through its secretary. Uniform blank 
books for this purpose, properly prepared, should be provided 



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yearly, on the first day of January (or last of December) by 
every state for its respective districts, and for every new district 
at its admission. 

4. County. A daily journal (six days every week, and 
twice each of those days) should be published by every county 
through its editor,. and distributed to each of the several offices, 
public libraries and families, and one each to its state library 
and magazine. Every member of the county cabinet and con- 
gress — ladies' and gentlemen's — should contribute once a month 
to their county journal, to each of whom the editor should 
assign a certain space and a certain day; the spaces to be 
determined by law. 

5. State. Every state should, through its editor, publish 
once a week a magazine, to be circulated to every family, public 
library and office therein, and one copy each to the National 
Library and Eeview. Every member of the state congress and 
cabinet — ladies' and gentlemen's — should contribute once a 
month to their state magazine; a certain week and space, 
according to law, being assigned each by the editor. 

6. Republic. A monthly Eeview should be published by 
the Republic, through its editor, for distribution to each of its 
several offices, public libraries and families. Every member of 
the national congress and cabinet — ladies' and gentlemen's — 
also of the corps diplomatic, corps oVhonneur and of the National 
University should contribute once a month to the Eeview of the 
Eepublic — a certain space, according to law, being assigned 
each by the editor. 

The strictest classification of subjects, as political, literary, 
scientific, mechanical, convivial, ideal, poetical, martial, social, 
personal, critical, historical, moral, religious, etc., should be 
observed by the several editors of magazines and county jour- 
nals, but especially by the editor pf the Eeview of the Eepublic. 

Official Gazette. 

An Official Gazette should be issued daily (six days a week) 
from the office of the Eeview of the Eepublic, for distribution 



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to all national and sta-te officers, and to all county presidents 
and secretaries. 

Official Bulletins. 

An Official Bulletin should be issued daily (six days a week) 
from the office of every state magazine, for distribution to all 
its state and county officers, and to the presidents and secretaries 
of its several districts. 

Railroad System. 

The national exchange and storage depot should be sepa- 
rately connected with that of each of its states and seaports 
by railroad and steam cars ; the depot of a state in like manner 
with that of each of its counties ; the depot of a county with 
that of each of its districts ; the depot of a district with each 
dwelling house and public lot therein. 

Horse power, rather than steam, should be used on family 
and district railways'. 

Mail and Express System. 

Letters and small packages, sealed, should be divided into 
two classes: valuable and ordinary. 

These should be forwarded to and from the national ex- 
change and storage depot as follows : from the Metropolis to 
the depot of each of its states and foreign ports ; from the 
depot of a state to that of each of its several counties ; from 
the depot of a county to that of each of its several districts; 
and from that of a district to each of its families and offices. 

The return mail and express in like manner : from a family 
or office to its district exchange and storage depot; from a 
district depot to that of its county, and to each of its families 
and offices ; from the depot of a county to that of its state and 
those of its several districts ; from the depot of a state to that 
of the Eepublic and those of its several counties ; from that of 
a foreign port also to that of the Eepublic ; and from the Ee- 
public to that of each of its several states and foreign ports. 



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There should be certain rates, to be prescribed by national 
law, prepaid on every letter or mail package. 

Personal Travel and Transportation. 

All travel (naval excepted) throughout the Eepublic should 
be by the railroads, and in the following manner: from the 
national exchange and storage depot to that of each of its 
several states and foreign ports ; from the depot of a state to 
that of each of its several counties ; from the depot of a county 
to that of each of its several districts ; and from the depot of a 
district to each of its private residences and offices. 

Thus also in return: from a private residence or office to 
the depot of its district; from a district depot to that of its 
county or to its own private dwellings or offices ; from the depot 
of a county to that of its state and of each of its several dis- 
tricts ; from the depot of a state to that of the Eepublic and 
of each of its several counties ; and from the national depot to 
that of each of the several states and foreign ports — except in 
all cases where it is practicable to change at intersections. 

Certain rates of transportation, to be ascertained and from 
time to time modified by national law, should be prepaid by 
every person traveling. 

Passengers should be divided into a judicious number of 
classes, and the rates arranged accordingly. 

Transportation of Commodities. 

Private commodities, divided into a judicious number of 
classes, should be transported in the same manner as persons, 
at certain rates for each class, to be determined and from time 
to time modified by national law. This should include no 
articles intended for sale or exchange, but simply personal 
effects and presents for friends. 

Public Revenue. 

The national revenue should consist of the profits on the 
sales and purchases made by the Eepublic to and from its 



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several states and foreign ports, and markets. The revenue 
of a state, in like manner, in the profits arising from its sales 
and purchases to and from its several counties. The revenue 
of a county in the profits of its sales and purchases to and from 
its several districts. The revenue of a district likewise in the 
profits arising from its sales and purchases to and from its 
several inhabitants ; and the revenue of an inhabitant from the 
profits on the proceeds of his own industry, office or employment. 

The soil and substance of earth and sea, nurtured, developed, 
manufactured and applied by the strength, wisdom and system- 
atic just action of divine man constitute the foundation of all 
sublunar wealth, health, happiness, grandeur, glory and power. 

The tariffs for revenue should be carefully modelled and 
limited by a general national law, modified from time to time 
so as to assure full support to the several bodies-politic, and at 
the same time protect all inferiors from the frauds in which 
weak or wicked agents have sometimes suffered themselves to 
indulge. # 

But the special arrangements of tariffs for revenue should 
be made by every body-politic, through its congress, for its own 
immediate members — by the Eepublic for its several states, by 
each state for its counties, by each county for its districts, and 
by each district for its inhabitants. 

Planting, Manufacturing, Mining and Fishing. 

"When either of these industries, in any particular locality, 
requires for its development or management the united exer- 
tions of more than one family, it should be conducted by the 
district in which it is situate ; or if it require the united exer- 
tions of more than one district, it should then be conducted by 
the county ; or if more than one county, then by the state ; or 
if more than one state, then by the Eepublic. In every case 
the profits and losses should be distributed by the naval prize 
rule, according to national law. 

Every other enterprise or industry requiring the united 
efforts of more than one family, or district, or county, or state, 
should be conducted in like manner. 



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System of Junior Education. 

Grades of instruction should be as follows : home nurseries, 
district schools, county academies, state colleges, and a national 
university. 

Pupils should enter the district school at from eight to ten 
years of age ; the county academy at from twelve to sixteen ; 
the state college at from sixteen to twenty-two, and the national 
university at from twenty to twenty-eight. 

All graduates from the district schools should be admitted 
to the academy of their county. 

For admission to their state college a certain quota, based 
on actual population and to be ascertained by state law, should 
be assigned each county. The county educator should select 
by examination and, with approval of his cabinet and congress 
appoint from among the academic graduates those who should 
be sent to the state college. Eations, quarters and clothing, as 
prescribed by national law, should be provided by a state for 
all members of its college. The students should be subject to 
dismissal by the state educator, on approval of his cabinet and 
congress, for incivility, impropriety or inefficiency. 

For admission to the national university a certain quota, 
based on actual population, to be ascertained by national law, 
should be assigned each state. The state educator should select 
by examination and, with the approval of his cabinet and con- 
gress, appoint from among the college graduates those who 
should be sent to the national university. The members of the 
university should be subject to dismissal by the national edu- 
cator, on approval of his cabinet and congress, for incivility, 
impropriety or inefficiency. Eations, quarters, clothing and a 
salary in money, all to be determined and from time to time 
modified by national law, should be provided by the Eepublic 
for all members of its university, so long as they remain con- 
nected therewith. No term should be assigned university 
students ; they should continue members so long as willing and 
worthy. 



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System of Libraries, Museums and Athenaeums. 

The culture of the fine arts — music, poetry, painting, en- 
graving, carving, sculpture, design, and the thousand other 
forms and subdivisions — should be fostered in all families, 
schools, academies and colleges, and in all socials, cabinets, 
congresses and legations. 

Invention, too, and authorship should be cherished and 
protected by national law and universal courtesy. 

The national library, museum and athenaeum should be 
supplied with all available useful books, maps, charts, specimens 
and works of nature, sciencie, literature and art ; and those of 
every state, county, district and family with such as they from 
time to time elect to procure. 

To these should be added monthly a certain value of each, 
to be furnished by a district to its families and offices, by a 
county to its districts, by a state to its counties, and by the 
Eepublic to its states ; the amount in cash to be ascertained by 
national law, and the kind and quality determined by the body 
making the donation. 

System of Weights, Measures and Currency. 

These should be arranged according to the scale of ten, in 
all cases and for all purposes whatever : no fractions not thus 
represented to be used under any circumstance. 

Universal currency should consist of gold and silver , and such 
other metals, of greater or less value, as by national law might 
be judged expedient. 

Special currency, consisting of demand notes, should be used 
when the universal currency proved inadequate to the require- 
ments of surplus profits or of trade ; or when the Republic for 
the public good might deem it expedient to make large foreign 
purchases, in excess of its export of commodities; or to enable 
it to control the rates of sales and purchases throughout the 
world. 

Special currency would have two advantages, viz : first, to 
prevent the hoarding of gold by increasing its value; second, 



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to enable the Eepublic to contro the markets of the world, for 
the benefit of its own people; or compel foreign powers to 
consolidate themselves and adopt our form of government, for 
the protection and growth of their material interests, and to 
save their states from utter depopulation. 

Currency should be issued only by the treasurer of the Ee- 
public, under authority of national law. 

Special currency should then be distributed by the Eepublic 
to its states, by each state to its counties, by each county to its 
districts, by each district to its inhabitants. 

Gold in return should be furnished by every inhabitant to 
his district, by every district to its county, by every county to 
its state, by every state to the Eepublic. 

The gold should be returned and the demand notes taken 
up in like manner ; or the notes cancelled by profits on sales 
and purchases, as might be determined by national law for the 
public good. 

System of Authority and Privilege, 

The fundamental authority is the law of God ; the second 
authority and interpreter of the fundamental law should be the 
people of the Eepublic ; the third authority and interpreter of 
the will of the people (when not expressly given) should be the 
national congress ; the fourth authority and interpreter of the 
will of its congress (when not expressly given) should be the 
national cabinet; the fifth authority and interpreter of the will 
of the national cabinet and of the people of its state (when not 
expressly given) should be the congress of the state ; the sixth 
authority and interpreter of the will of its congress (when not 
expressly given) should be the state cabinet; the seventh authority 
and interpreter of the will of the state cabinet and of the people 
of its county (when not expressly given) should be the county 
congress ; the eighth authority and interpreter of the will of 
its congress (when not expressly given) should be the county 
cabinet; the ninth authority and interpreter of the will of the 
county cabinet and of its own district should be the district 
congress ; the tenth authority and interpreter of the will of its 



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congress (when not expressly given) should be the district 
cabinet ; the eleventh authority and interpreter of the will of 
the cabinet should consist of the individual gentlemen of the 
district, graded according to age; the twelfth authority and 
interpreter of the will of their protectors — father, husband or 
brother — should consist of the individual ladies of the district, 
graded according to age. 

All these men, women and children should by their faith, 
virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, godliness, brotherly 
kindness and love preserve their unity, courage, wisdom, acti- 
vity and strength of soul, body and estate, and thus assure all 
their natural rights and conventional privileges, including life, 
freedom and property, and the full satisfaction of their normal 
wants, in the just exercise of their natural powers, with free 
opportunity to secure and enjoy that position in society and 
authority to which their worth and ability shall entitle them 
respectively. 

The applications of authority should always be in kind : 
physical for physical, social for social, mental for mental, moral 
for moral, religious for religious. Physical force should not 
be exercised to control social^ mental, moral or religious action, 
purely so called. In a word, let mind act upon mind, and 
matter upon matter, and let the action in either case be natural 
and regular — joy to the giver, and gladness to him w r ho receives. 
Then shall we grow to be a united, virtuous, noble, wise and 
godly nation — emblems of courage, purity and truth — of life, 
liberty and happiness — a pattern to the whole w T orld. 

Eights and Duties, Freedom and Servitude, Misery and Happiness. 

G-od is alone possessed of absolute life, freedom and pro- 
perty. Those of every other being are developed in measure 
as he approaches the holiness and perfection of the Almighty, 
and diminished in like proportion as from any cause, voluntary 
or involuntary, he recedes therefrom. 

It is not guilt which suffers, as that term is understood, but 
rather imperfection. Hence the injunction, "Be ye holy, for I 



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am holy." And again, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your 
Father in Heaven is perfect." 

Success is the measure of perfection in that wherein it is 
successful ; and success, in the true aims of being, in the right 
direction, is the best assurance of life, freedom and property, 
for time and eternity. 

Weakness and wickedness are sister sins — the one positive, 
the other negative. Let us therefore be strong in the Lord, 
valiant in the truth and wise unto salvation; and "let us press 
forward toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ 
Jesus," bending every nerve and exerting every power in a 
systematic united effort to obtain, maintain, establish and per- 
petuate that which is for our own best good, both in this world 
and in that which is to come. 

Let the principle apply to every circumstance of life or 
death, loss or profit, war or peace — to whatsoever we think, or 
do, or say, and to every person, society or object within our 
range of action or knowledge: Be united and valiant, pure 
and true, wise and strong ! 

Let the head, heart, hands, feet and body, the spirit, the 
intellect, the will, the force, the love of self, of family, friends, 
society, country, humanity and of God — let these be active, 
well defined, and tuned, and governed. Let us learn the lesson 
for all times and circumstances, to seek that which is right, to 
have faith in our success, to "believe we have it and we shall 
have it," to "add to our faith virtue, and to virtue knowledge, 
and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and 
to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and 
to brotherly kindness love." And what we do let us do with 
all our might, being fully assured that God is our friend, and 
that we are free and responsible agents, each one for himself, 
his family, friends, neighbors, country, humanity and all. 
Let no man say when he suffers, " The Almighty hath done 
this ;" or when he is tempted, "I am tempted of God." 

O wicked and perverse generation, w T ho seek to charge their 
sins and miseries to the Author of all good ! "Who sit on the 
fire they have built and cry: "Help, alas, I perish!" but will 



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not move nor help themselves ! "Who lie supinely on their 
backs and pray sincerely for success, but will not go forth to 
battle ! Let us awake, arise, put on our strength as men, 
created in the very image and likeness of the Most High ! 
Let as feel our proud condition, and labor to regain our long 
lost rights. Life, freedom and property are ours by inheritance 
from Father Adam and from God. "The heaven, even the 
heavens, are the Lord's; but the earth hath he given to the 
children of men," whom he placed over it to have dominion, 
and to till and to keep it. 

A man has no more right to the Adamic property of his 
brother than to his person, no more to his person than to his 
life. What if our fathers sold their lands, of lost them in the 
issue of battle ? Aye, what if they had sold their freedom too, 
or lost it in the strife of arms ? " Because our fathers have 
eaten sour grapes, shall their children's teeth be set on edge ?" 
Tea, though they did wrong, let not the curse rest forever ! 
"Old things are passed away, and behold all have become new !" 
They sold indeed some their lands, some their persons, some 
their lives, or they lost them in the gauge of battle, or in the 
perfidy of treaty; but our lands are nevertheless ours, our free- 
dom ours, ours .our sacred lives. 

Say no who will ; all these three belong to us by the best 
title of inheritance, and he who does not claim his own is either 
weak or wicked. He is no true man who will suffer his natural 
rights to be disregarded, and his personal integrity and safety 
threatened ; who will place his neck on the guillotine, his 
person in bondage, or his property in possession of another. 
Equivalent ! There can be no equivalent. Where is the law 
to sell one's birthright ? where to purchase that of another ? 
Example ! Aye, the example of a hateful glutton. Away 
with such argument. 

Property is the body of the body, and there is quite as 
much justice in closing the doors of the house of the soul as in 
dealing thus with that of the body. Let us never forget our 
high estate, made, as we are, in the very image and likeness of 
the Almighty. 



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We are indeed a part of nature and a part of Goc|, and 
when our prayers go up for help, we ourselves are often detailed 
in reply to perform the service we require. And shall we not 
do it ? Yes, the active, wise and good will do it. They will 
do it, because it is just, right and expedient. They will do it, 
because they wish to do the truth. They will do it, because 
they love God, themselves, their families, friends, neighbors, 
country and humanity. They will do it that the knowledge of 
God may cover the land, " as the waters cover the sea," that 
"his lines may go out through all the earth, and his words to 
the ends of the world," and that " all the nations may call him 
blessed," rejoicing themselves with u joy unspeakable and full 
of glory." They will do it that "the desert may rejoice and 
blossom as the rose, and the wilderness and solitary place be 
glad of it;" that "mercy and truth may meet together, and 
righteousness and peace kiss each other," even as "when the 
morning stars sang in one accord, and all the sons of God 
shouted for joy." They will do it, because our Savior, good, 
wise and powerful, commands: "All things whatsoever ye 

WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO UNTO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO UNTO 



Resume. 

And now, dear friends, a closing word with you familiarly. 
I assume that you all acknowledge God, the Eternal, Omni- 
present, Omniscient, Unchangeable, Almighty Jehovah ; that 
you acknowledge him our Creator, Redeemer and Lifegiver; 
that you acknowledge the necessity and sufficiency of redemp- 
tion and atonement — on account of sins that we have intention- 
ally committed — through our Savior, Jesus Christ, and that 
there is no other means whereby we can be saved from divine 
punishment; that you acknowledge that when redeemed and 
pardoned, we yet require — because of the disintegrated and 
abnormal condition in which we then are, being spiritually 
dead — to be regenerated and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, 
and built in as a member to the christian family; that you 
acknowledge a church thus formed by the Almighty on earth, 



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with some members here and some in heaven, which has Christ 
as its head, the twelve Apostles second, those next worthy 
third, and thus on in the order of families, a perfect succession — 
such in number and conformation as the human race would 
have been had Adam and Eve, with all their descendants, con- 
tinued without sin, as first directed in the Garden of Eden; 
that you acknowledge that when the full number is complete, 
the family thus formed will virtually constitute the whole world, 
none of the wicked being counted as members of our society, 
nor admitted among us any more — then Christ will come again, 
and we, whether quick or dead, shall all be made spiritually 
alive, having also perfect bodies as well as souls, and shall, 
each in his own order, rewarded in position according to his 
works, be organized into the Family of Sanctified Man, shall 
live and reign with CHEIST in holiness and happiness forever; 
that you also acknowledge that meantime the ALMIGHTY 
will have transformed the whole face of nature to suit our new 
condition, melted away the icebergs, levelled down the moun- 
tains, built up the valleys, made fruitful the deserts and waste 
places, commingled the waters of the deep with the thirsty soil, 
changed the earth and the heaven as a garment, and brought 
forth all things renewed, beautified, superbly dressed, brilliantly 
adorned and charmiDgly felicitous to all the senses, even " more 
than eye hath seen or ear heard, or than it hath entered into 
the heart of man to conceive." 

(I would that 1 could address all men everywhere on the 
basis of this creed ; but if there are some who differ essentially 
from the view herewith presented, they will please consider 
that, with all due deference and respect, they are not included 
in the number of those to whom I now speak, as to dear friends 
who believe, as I do, in God and in the christian religion.) 

With these acknowledgments, ladies and gentlemen, our 
duty and our interest consist together in doing the will of God 
under all circumstances, even when apparently conflicting with 
our earthly security, pleasure and happiness — being fully assured, 
as w T e are, that the Almighty, always "about our bed and about 
our path," observing every thought, word, action and omission, 



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has commanded us each one in these solemn words : " Thou 
shall love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, and with all thy 
soul, and with all thy mind; and thou shalt love thy neighbor 
as thyself." And "this is the love of God that we keep his 
commandments." 

Hence an essential evidence of love to God consists in 
obedience to his will. We are known by our fruits, and have 
the assurance that if we love him, we keep his commandments, 
the chief of which, as regards society, is to love our neighbors 
as ourselves, the fulfillment whereof consists in doing unto 
them all things whatsoever we would have them do unto us. 
Such is the law of God, as given also by Moses and the prophets. 

Now we know by experience and observation that practical 
obedience to this divine command is the severest trial of human 
selfishness, and the best test of intelligent self love. 

Good men are willing to make long and earnest prayers, to 
build churches and schools, to foster religion, education and 
emperance, to assist the poor, the needy, the sick and the 
afflicted, to lay down their very lives in defense of the truth — 
in fine, to be good christians, according to the fashion of the 
society of which they are members. But to "go and sell all 
that they have and give to the poor, and to come and follow 
Christ," having "all things common;" they had rather lose 
heaven forever than to make so great a sacrifice of property. 
Besides they assume to believe sueh action unwise. They con- 
strue the law in the weakest and most impracticable manner, 
and (some who have thus attempted compliance) beholding the 
results of their own foolishness and not of the law of equality, 
would fain persuade themselves that it was never really intended 
to have "all things common." And when they read again 
that "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle 
than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven," they 
in vain attempt to explain away its meaning, and to satisfy the 
conscience in that " God is able to make a way of escape" for 
them, and will possibly do so. 

But we know that all such hopes are founded in the per- 
verseness and disloyalty of the hearts and souls of many men. 



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We know also that though our Savior, Jesus Christ, was meek 
and lowly, yet as a man he was the wisest and ablest that ever 
lived upon the earth. He far exceeded in knowledge and power 
all the founders, expounders and defenders of the Koman, Civil 
and Common Laws. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Web- 
ster and Clay — with all the wisdom of the present day — 
were they combined into one man, could not have planned 
a battle, a charter, a government, an exposition, a pacification, 
or any other measure, with the ability, correctness and success 
of Christ. He knew the end from the beginning, from east 
to west, from height to depth, and from north to south. 
Is it to be supposed, then, that one so wise and true Would 
have spoken falsely or foolishly ? «or that he would have said 
what he did not mean ? or that he did not know the right use 
of language ? 

But I will not further argue. Suffice it that we are agreed 
upon this point, that it is our duty and interest, as respects 
society and ourselves, to do unto all others as we would have 
them do unto us; from which it follows that we must assure to 
every one, omitting none, the full satisfaction of his normal 
wants, in the just exercise of his natural powers and the posi- 
tion in society and state to which his worth and ability entitle 
him. For the accomplishment of this purpose, our own judg- 
ment, based on such knowledge as we may have, is the natural 
guide. 

Nevertheless, since there is doubtless a correct system for 
society as for all things else in nature, it only remains for us 
to elucidate and apply it. Inasmuch, however, as our race, by 
reason of sin, is become defective and disorganized in mind and 
constitution, we might fail of the truth were we to attempt to 
develop an abstract original system. But seeing that we have 
a perfect model in the conformation and organization of the 
Christian Church of the Millennium, as explained in the 
Scriptures, we can with safety take that as a basis for the re- 
organization of human society. Of course, we cannot adopt 
it perfectly, on account of the imperfection of our natures. 
We must keep the rulers subject to the people, until the coming 



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of the Perfect One, in whom alone we can safely entrust our- 
selves implicitly. 

With the exceptions of this reservation of rights, modifica- 
tion of powers and limitation of authority, I do not know any 
unselfish reason why society might not now be organized in the 
most perfect manner. Let us remember then that weakness 
and wickedness are both to be avoided, and resolve at once and 
forever to do our whole duty toward God, toward ourselves, 
toward our family, friends, neighbors, country and humanity. 

" Prepare ye the way of the Lord; make his paths 

STRAIGHT." 



CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Introduction ... 3 

Invocation . 7 

Fundamental basis of human government 11 

Christianity — its operation and results 12 

General principles of government . 21 

Society . 22 

Divine origin of man s 23 

Unity of mankind 24 

Our universal natural rights — life, freedom and property 25 

The golden rule of equity . 26 

Social faults, defects and over-growth 27 

Organization of society ..„. .... .. 28 

National governments and their capitals 29 

States and state capitals 29 

Counties and county capitals .... 29 

Districts and district capitals 29 

Subdivisions of cities .... 30 

Subdivision of districts : 30 

Property, marriage and ineritance 31 

Voters, officers, employees and minors 32 

Essential requisites of law 33 

District offices and employments 33 

Duties of officers and employees 35 

Personal and district assurance and relief 36 

County offices and employments 37 

County congresses 37 

County cabinets 38 

County assurance and relief 40 

State offices and employment* 40 



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State congresses 40 

State cabinets .« 41 

National navy, merchant and marine— a state 43 

State assurance and relief 43 

National offices and employments 43 

The national congress 44 

The national cabinet 45 

Department of diplomacy 47 

Department of honor 47 

Systems of popular expression and constituent instruction 48 

Oath of duty 48 

Uniform, rank, pay and allowances of officers and employees 49 

Designation of states, counties, districts and lots 50 

Substitute officers . . 50 

Courts of law and equity 51 

Telegraph system 52 

Newspaper system 52 

Official gazette.... 53 

Official bulletins 54 

Railroad system 54 

.Mail and express system 54 

Personal travel and transportation ' 55 

Transportation of commodities 55 

Public revenue 55 

Planting, manufacturing, mining and fishing 56 

System of junior education 57 

System of libraries, museums and athenaeums 58 

System of weights, measures and currency 58 

System of authority and privilege 59 

Rights and duties, freedom and servitude, misery and happiness 60 

Resume ' 63 







50- 




THE REPUBLIC 




OF 



NORTH AMERICA 



BY 



M0DTIB0LT. 



, Freedom and Property are ours by natural inheritance from Father Adam and 
through him from The Father op All. The first is the measure of the second, the second 
of the third, the third of the first; and these three as one constitute the substance of our 

nd the essence of ourselves. We are responsible and accountable for our condition 
and possessions. 




S DETROIT: 

JOHX PLATER'S BOOK AND JOB PRINTING ESTABLISHMENT. 

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